Lanfried has been serving for two years as the pastor of North American P.E.A.C.E, a missions strategy program, at Saddle-back Church, the Lake Forest, Calif., megachurch founded by Pastor Rick Warren. Earlier, Lanfried served as the global outreach pastor at Mariners Church for six and a half years. He and his wife have two children.
    Other plenary speakers are:
   •Paul Borthwick, who serves on the staff of Development Associates International, a training group dedicated to the character and ministry development of leaders in the under-resourced world. Borthwick also teaches missions at Gordon College in Massachusetts and serves as an Urbana/ Missions Associate with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship.
   • Floyd McClung Jr., senior pastor of a large, growing church in Kansas City, Mo., and the international director of All Nations Family. He has lectured on more than 100 university campuses and traveled to more than 175 nations. •Catharine Coon, a missionary with WorldVenture since 1988.   She is founder and director of Children of Hope, a relief project for children at risk. Coon lives and works in Uganda, East Africa, and is involved with children affected by the civil wars in Uganda and Sudan. She is a graduate of San Jose University and has a master of divinity degree. from Western Seminary in Portland.
    Mission ConneXion Northwest offers 125 workshops led by more than 100 mission speakers from around the world and nearly 75 mission agency exhibits. In its fourth run last January, the event drew more than 10,000 people to New Hope Church in Clackamas.
    While Mission ConneXion Northwest is pleased to have Lanfried keynoting the event, the circumstances surrounding Haggard’s removal as speaker were still difficult, according to MacLeod.
   “When the details of his immorality came to light, and his subsequent removal from office by New Life’s leadership, our hearts were and continue to be grieved for him, his wife and family members, and this God-honoring church,” he wrote. “We thank the Lord for Pastor Ted’s confession of his sin, the swift manner in which the church dealt with the offense, and the loving way other leaders have quickly come alongside to help him deal with the issues in his life with the hope of full restoration, through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, at some point in the future. It is our hope at Mission ConneXion Northwest that through this wake-up call, we would all take stock of our lives, seek the forgiveness of sin, and its long-term effects on ourselves and society, and turn, as Ted did, to Jesus – the Author and Perfector of our faith – who is the only One who can provide the life we were intended to live.
   “We regret that Ted’s choices in the past now keep him from participating with us in January, but we are confident that our Lord, who alone is able to make ‘all things new’ has much more in store for him, and for us.”